Country Music Hall of Fame
Nashville's museum of country music, in a building shaped with a fin, a rotunda and a facade of piano keys.
Updated 30 August 2026
The museum moved to this building in 2001 and the architecture is deliberately literal: the windows on one facade are set out as piano keys, the roofline curves like a 1950s Cadillac fin, and the rotunda holding the bronze plaques of inductees has a spire echoing a radio tower, with the disc of the roof recalling a record. Inside, the collection runs from string bands and the Bristol sessions through Hank Williams, the Nashville sound, outlaw country and after, with instruments, stage clothes, manuscripts and a very large audio and film archive. A separate ticket covers RCA Studio B on Music Row, where Elvis, Dolly Parton and others recorded, still standing and shown by tour.
What you'll find
- A building that quotes its subject - piano-key windows, a fin roofline.
- The rotunda of bronze plaques - the inducted members.
- Instruments, stage clothes and manuscripts - through the chronology.
- RCA Studio B - a separate ticket and a bus ride to Music Row.
When to go
Year round. Three hours.
What to expect
The Studio B tour is a separate ticket and leaves from the museum on a schedule. It is busy year round with downtown Nashville traffic. Parking downtown is expensive. The museum is large - allow more time than you plan.
Nearby
Broadway's honky-tonks are two blocks north; Music Row is west.
Key facts
Source: Wikidata, item Q680685, read on 18 October 2026.
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